LAHORE  - Kazakhstan’s Aldiyar Abzhan and Ivan Iutkin of Russia made into the final of the ITF Pakistan AJ Towers World Junior Tennis Championships at PTF-SDA Tennis Complex on Thursday. 
Abzhan struggled hard to win his semifinal against unseeded Nikita Bortnichek from Russian in an exciting three set match. In the first set, both the players held their respective serves till 6-6 all and the set was decided in a tie break, which was won by Abhan by taking the early break in the tie break at 7-2. In the second set, Nikita changed the pattern of game and broke the 8th game of Abhan to take the lead 5-3 and then played some excellent shots down the line to hold the serve and leveled the match 1-1 set all. 
In the final set, both the players played excellent long rallies; after losing the third game of final set, Abzhan came back aggressively and did not allow his opponent to settle down and placed couple of aces in the set and finally broke the 6th game of Nikita and by holding the 7th game, took the lead 5-2. In the 9th game, Abhan played some excellent cross court shots to confirm a place in the final.  
In the second semifinal, Iutking played excellent tennis throughout the match and his opponent from Poland Maciej Zarebski was unable to match his excellence. The match lasted 59 minutes. In the girls event, Top seed Andra Izabella Sirbu of Romania proved too good against her opponent 4th Seed Olga Sorochkina of Russia to seal a place in the final. She won the match 7-5,6-2. In the second semi-final, Tamara Ermakova of Russia beat Melisa Ugur of Turkey in a thrilling see-saw match which lasted 2 hrs 12 minutes 4-6, 6-1 7-5. 
In the boys doubles, Nikita Bortnichek (RUS) & Ruslan Serazhetdinov (RUS) caused a major upset to defeat top seed Iranian duo Amirali Ghavam and Yunes Talava in an exciting three sets encounter 6-4 4-6 10-7. In the second semifinal, Dev Kanbargimath (ROU) & Aril Kayra Tuna (TUR) also upset the 2nd seed Russian pair of Ivan Iutkin and Nikita Safonov in a straight sets match 7-6(6), 7-5. In the girls doubles, Munisa Ashurkekova (UZB) & Melisa Ugur (TUR) proved too good to Taira Abildayeva (KAZ) & Artina Gashi (GBR) in a one-sided affair 6-0 6-2.